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to still be smiling at this ages after I heard it?

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Baileyscheesecake · 09/12/2017 14:47

A trailer for the tv comedy Gameface had the line which went something like "Don't pick up the cat. He's just eaten a kebab." This was on tv weeks ago and I still break into a smile when I think of it. AIBU to ask this or just slightly doolally but what other one liners from comedy programmes do people still find funny no matter how many times they hear it or how long ago it was last on tv? Another one that springs to my crazy mind is Basil Fawlty saying "Is this a piece of your brain" to the annoying woman who wouldn't turn her hearing aid on because it used up the batteries. Smile

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lilywillywoo · 10/12/2017 22:17

The IT crowd where Roy goes to use the disabled toilet in the theatre, then has to pretend to be disabled. 'I'm disabled '!
Graham Norton as Father Noel in Father Ted, in the one in the caravan.
The Killer Rabbit in monty python and the Holy Grail

The face painting in Phoenix Nights where the guy ends up using permanent paint and is a tiger for the rest of the series Shere Khan

Bumdishcloths · 10/12/2017 22:18

'Leg disabled'

NachoFries · 10/12/2017 22:21

My family and my DP like to reenact this when we have pizza...Melissa McCarthy as the pizza eater Grin

WendyMad · 10/12/2017 22:26

"Don't tell him, Pike!"

Funniest line ever written - probably because I just know that, if I had been in Captain Mainwaring's position, it's just what I would have said!

TossDaily · 10/12/2017 22:31

Thanks to this thread I've just watched two back to back episodes of Gameface. Haven't laughed so much in ages. Thanks, OP

FirstTimeMum07 · 10/12/2017 22:48

The ones that get me everytime are in The Inbetweeners last episode, where they go camping........"Stop burning my things" and "Don't be sick in the tent! If you have" hahaha it kills me

moggiek · 10/12/2017 22:57

Not a one liner, but the monkey wearing the seat belt in the back of the car in Car Share. Priceless!

ghostyslovesheets · 10/12/2017 22:59

Gameface is very funny

I also love - from Blackadder 'but what is he LIKE in BEEED'

Bumder

The Fish Dance - Monty Python and also a lot of Nee

ghostyslovesheets · 10/12/2017 23:00

oh and we have a very daft fire alarm at work that says - in a very posh voice 'Fire, Fire, Fire ...clear the building'

it always reminds me of Moss emailing the firebrigade 'Fire...Fire...Fire...'

ghostyslovesheets · 10/12/2017 23:01
midlifecrash · 10/12/2017 23:15

Bob BRUCE is your uncle (Election placard, Absolutely)

RebeccaWrongDaily · 10/12/2017 23:25

we do the partridge 'Dan, Dan, DAaaan' often

Also the wafer thin bit of ham (daughter is vegan)

i find myself quoting Elf, a lot, throughout the year, it's my favourite film.

CasanovaFrankenstein · 10/12/2017 23:29

I loved Absolutely. Does anyone remember the character that used to find mildly amusing car stickers hysterical?

I think they are going to do another series, unless I dreamt that!

AnnaT45 · 10/12/2017 23:44

'This is my shooting hand'

Blazing saddles. Absolutely brilliant film

AnnaT45 · 10/12/2017 23:46

Oh and we also do : 'John never has a second cup of coffee at home' from airplane oil someone does something unexpected

NotForSale · 11/12/2017 05:25

Mine is Vicar of Dibley when there is a banner celebrating '10 happy ears' as the 'Y' fell off. Dawn French's face!! :)

Iris65 · 11/12/2017 06:11

Mine are mostly from Frasier:
Niles ‘I really must go. I'm hosting a seminar on multiple personality disorders and it takes me forever to fill out the name tags.’

Niles ‘ I really must run. I'm due at my sexual addiction group, and I don't like to leave them alone for too long.’

Martin: Seattle's a big city. I'm sure there's a bunch of German fencing instructors, each one with dozens of students.
Frasier: Yes, but are they wealthy students?
Martin: [sarcastically] No, they're inner-city kids trying to work their way out of the ghetto with nothing but a foil and a dream.

I also often laugh at Nana’s wafer thin ham comment on The Royle Family.

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 11/12/2017 08:09

Oh god, how can I forget Frasier! The greatest show with just the best one liners! Iris I’ve just snort-laughed at yours!!

I regularly say “that’s a bit of a pickle, well not so much a pickle, more of a cornichon”

SJN71 · 11/12/2017 08:18

There are three I can think of:
Blackadder - Lord Flashheart when he catches sight of Baldrick in wedding dress “Hi Bridey, love the beard, gives me something to hang onto” (whilst thrusting hips)
Blackadder - Baldrick making a cup of “cappuccino” for Blackadder in the trenches
VW - “is it on the trolley, can you point to it”

So many awesome British comedy moments - shame I now live in NZ where apart from the Conchords its pretty dire.........

Purplealienpuke · 11/12/2017 09:12

Judas that's definitely my all time fav tv quote 😂
I absolutely love Four Lions and Rubber Dingy Rapids.......

KathyBeale · 11/12/2017 09:26

I am loving all these!

Have thought of some more...

"Can someone please phone my mum" in the Inbetweeners.

Elaine saying: "a dingo ate my baby" in her rubbish Australian accent in Seinfeld.

Edmund coming up with an explanation for "great booze up" in Blackadder 2... "his name is Great Boo, he's been suffering from sleeping sickness..."

Every time anyone cheerily says "fuck you very much" in The Thick of It.

morningconstitutional2017 · 11/12/2017 09:37

There are many these great exchanges in 'Rising Damp'.
Rigsby fears that he's run over his cat Vienna (which is in a sack) when in reality it's the horrible animal stole of Miss Jones, he asks, "Is it dead?"
"Oh yes, it's quite dead" replies Philip - Don Warrington. How on earth he kept a straight face I shall never know.

Rigsby again (often at his expense) on the art of seduction mentions the 'erogenous zones' and the young lad (Beckinsale) says the immortal line,
"I know where the erogenous zones are but I've never been up 'em!"

WendyMad · 11/12/2017 09:58

"Would you like a cup of tea, Mrs Nesbit?" from Toy Story.

The toy ultra-macho Buzz Lightyear has been damaged, and our young hero's kid sister picks him up, sits him with her dolls at her dolly's tea party, and says this to him.

It would have been nothing if she had called him say Mrs Smith or Mrs Jones - giving him a name that took some imagination is a stroke of genius.

Hobbitch · 11/12/2017 10:08

Most Malcolm Tucker lines kill me every time. Jamie also comes out with some gems. 'You don't deserve to LIVE!'

I also love it in Vicious when Derek Jacobi says to Ian McKellen, 'I am so going to enjoy unplugging you...'

I'm watching a lot of Orange is the new black and I love the bit where Cindy asks for a kosher meal and the server tells her she's not Jewish. Someone pipes up that it's illegal to refuse a kosher meal to someone and Cindy yells in triumph, 'That's right! Shabbat shalom, bitch!'

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 11/12/2017 10:22

The Vicar of Dibley Christmas lunch episode - so many great moments but an under appreciated one is when Jim takes the vicar's coat and you think he's gonna hang it on a coat peg, but he just chucks it on the floor Grin

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